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Splash (1984)

Whether Splash earns a thumbs up as opposed to a thumbs sideways depends entirely on whether you, personally, would welcome a nude 24-year-old Daryl Hannah running up to you and kissing you.

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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)

It’s actually kind of remarkable how little works in The Man with One Red Shoe.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

One of the chief problems of the previous Harry Potter movie, Goblet of Fire, is that it took two thirds of the movie for the movie to find a theme for Harry’s character growth (beyond “clueless teen” and “Wizard Olympics participant”).

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

The fourth Harry Potter book is 750 pages, almost 200,000 words.

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Pulp Fiction (1994)

Watching Pulp Fiction fires old synapses in my head that had gone dormant.

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God Help the Girl (2014)

About a third of the way into God Help the Girl, Cassie (Hannah Murray) protests during a guitar lesson to her instructor, James (Olly Alexander), that she doesn’t want to learn technique like scales, she just wants to write songs.

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The Lorax (1972)

Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, in the wake of the success of the Chuck Jones adaptation of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss produced and wrote a handful of half-hour TV specials, some based off of his existing books and some originals.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a conventional sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark in all of the ways that Temple of Doom is not.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Temple of Doom is the fever dream iteration of Indiana Jones, every scene and detail and character turned up to a nightmarish 11.

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LEGO Frozen Northern Lights (2016)

Out of all of the stupid, horrible Frozen spinoff shorts… this might be the most tolerable!